Changing tunes : the use of pre-existing music in film / edited by Phil Powrie, Robynn Stilwell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Powrie, Phil.

Stilwell, Robynn Jeananne.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Ashgate popular and folk music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

Motion picture music--Analysis, appreciation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 205 pages) : illustrations, music.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2006.

Contents:

pt. 1. Pre-existing classical film scores

Ears wide open : Kubrick's music / Claudia Gorbman

The pleasures of ambiguity : using classical music in film / Mike Cormack

The godfather part III : film, opera, and the generation of meaning / Lars Franke

High and low culture : Bizet's Carmen and the cinema / Ann Davies

Reconsidering Amadeus : Mozart as film music / Jeongwon Joe

The troll among us / Kristi A. Brown

pt. 2. Popular music and film

Queer pleasures : the bolero, camp, and Almodóvar / Vanessa Knights

Music, electricity, and the 'sweet mystery of life' in Young Frankenstein / Raymond Knapp

The popular song as leitmotif in 1990s film / Ronald Rodman

The fabulous destiny of the accordion in French cinema / Phil Powrie

Vinyl communion : the record as ritual object in girls' rites-of-passage films / Robynn Stilwell

Narrating sound : the pop video in the age of the sampler / Timothy Warner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-198) and index.

Includes filmography.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Changing tunes.

ISBN:

9781315095882 (electronic bk.)

1315095882 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

99994626061

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.